Fetch TV

It has to be the network. It seems to just be Ten that has really old photos on there.

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Iā€™ve been scraping EPG data from Fetch for a long time and their thumbnails have always been outdated or just a bit off. The weirdest ones can be seen on the Nine guides. They use a 9Life template to make generic thumbnails for all the channels:

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Sky News Regional (via SCA) on my box still has a Sky News on WIN logoā€¦

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Oh yes i forgot about that!

Itā€™s weird because ABCs channels all have the updated logos.

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The ABC then must have made an effort to get them to change theirs?

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Fetch is adding the ability to watch IP delivered FTA via the EPG (in the 400 range) - ABC and SBS has gone live, others to follow

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Just spotted this and was about to ask if it was new.

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Can you explain why?

To complete with Hubbl (most likely).

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Also allows them to market to people who donā€™t have an antenna

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This technology is also available with the current IQ4 and IQ5 so it competes with that. This is better though because as I understand it the IQ4 & 5 are now IPtv only for FTA.

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No you can still get FTA via aerial

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The Fetch mini has had similar for years where it can work without an antenna and stream from a Mighty on the same network so this will be great. Iā€™m assuming though that for Tasmania it will be just the Melbourne commercial channels available just like with the Hubbl so the local advertising will miss out further and things like 7 Tas News, WIN News and the 4:30 edition of Tipping Point will be out but apart from that and the news updates thereā€™s no difference these days in scheduling which makes this possible - but another nail in the coffin of broadcast FTA.

Really? I thought FTA was IP only? Or is it both?

Both - I prefer via aerial for the ability to record.

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IP on Foxtel is optional. and as said you cannot record via IP.

yeah I know you canā€™t record with IP but I didnā€™t know it was optional.

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I think itā€™s starting to because more mandatory. Iā€™ve heard their starting to switch satellite customers.

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Was looking at the IP delivered channels yesterday and disappointed at the picture quality on the ABC stations. Iā€™d hoped that the News Channel would be in some form of HD as it it on iView. But it didnā€™t look like it. Using the app it looked better.

Surely itā€™s just tapping into the iView streams. I say that as I had to log into SBS to watch its suite of channels.

Yeah it is. It says iView just before the stream starts. I havenā€™t checked the SBS feed.

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